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After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @09:25PM (4 children)
These are all vehicles which had software that kicked in during an emissions test to make the vehicle pass. So the cars can clearly operate up to standards, almost certainly with a drop in performance but they still work. Why would we not simply change the ECU firmware and put these things back on the road? Seems like intering these cars in a auto graveyard is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Saturday December 08 2018, @09:55PM
I'm not familiar with the models affected. If any had 4WD and a standard transmission, I'd love to re-purpose one as an ATV.
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(Score: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 08 2018, @11:07PM
Some VW models received a fix and are back on the road.
I think VW determined that it wasn't economically viable to fix most of the affected cars.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @01:04AM
Got one. Had it "fixed". Drop in mileage is minimal, no really noticeable difference in performance. Of course, I drive like a miler, and get higher than the original estimated MPG, and +50mpg on road trips. So who is contributing more to Global Warming?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Kymation on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:21AM
That's essentially what they are doing. Volkswagon had a hard deadline to get all of the cars fixed or off the road, and not enough resources to fix all of them in that short a time. So they bought the cars back and stored them until they could fix and resell them.
Notice those gaps in the rows of cars in the photo? Those cars have already been removed and had the fixes applied. Volkswagon is allowing their dealers to buy the cars at a steep discount, have their mechanics apply the fixes/software updates, then resell them. One of my friends just bought a low-mileage diesel Jetta at a great price. It was one of the recalled and fixed cars. It may take a while, but I expect that most of those cars will eventually end up back on the road.